The schooling process for the next academic year 2025/26 will take place between March 1 and 31.
On Saturday, March 1, the schooling process for the 2025/2026 academic year began, in the 318 centers supported by public funds for the teaching of Early Childhood Education (second cycle), Primary Education, Special Education, Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and Baccalaureate. The deadline for submitting applications will remain open until March 31.
For the next academic year, the Ministry of Educational Development and Vocational Training has offered a total of 134,123 places supported by public funds, of which 92.18% correspond to public centers and 7.82% to subsidized centers. In the case of 3-year-old students who join the educational system for the first time, 9,121 new places have been enabled, with 92.05% distributed in public centers and 7.95% in subsidized centers. The schooling process includes both boys and girls who access the educational system for the first time, whether in public or subsidized centers, and students who request a change of school.
According to census data, between the previous year and the current year there has been a significant decrease in the number of 3-year-old children entering schools for the first time. Specifically, for the current academic year, there are 6,815 born in 2022, which represents a decrease of 73 compared to those born in 2021. However, the Ministry has maintained a wide range of places for new students in the second cycle of Early Childhood Education, with the aim of guaranteeing the free choice of center by families.
Regarding complementary services, the morning classroom service will be offered in 2 more centers compared to this course, up to a total of 160 centers; 4 more centers are authorized to offer the school cafeteria service until reaching 198 centers; and 160 centers will have extracurricular activities. Since the 2019/20 academic year, the number of centers with morning classrooms has increased by 19, those with a school cafeteria by 20 and one with extracurricular activity.
In the current academic year, 94.56% of families have obtained a place in the center chosen as their first option, while 98.58% have achieved a school place in one of the preferred centers, 99% in one of the centers chosen by families.
On the other hand, the draw to resolve tie situations, after the application of the scale in applications for admission for the current 2024/25 academic year in public and subsidized centers in the province of Almería, resolved 77 situations, compared to 109 for the 2018 academic year. 19, that is, it has been reduced by 29.3% therefore, the procedure is more guaranteeing and indicates an improvement in the free choice of center by Andalusian families.
In addition, the Ministry has regrouped 161 siblings in educational centers for the current academic year, compared to 83 in the 2020/21 academic year, when the new schooling decree came into force. In these last five years, the total number of siblings grouped in educational centers is 590.
Admission criteria
Regarding the admission criteria that are applied when there are not enough places in schools or institutes to meet all applications, there is nothing new for the next academic year, that is, the same conditions are maintained.
Thus, 14 points will be awarded for the existence of siblings in the center and for proximity to the family home. It will also score that the student to be enrolled in school was born from multiple births (one point) and the criteria that grant points for having a son or daughter enrolled in the first cycle of Early Childhood are maintained, with the purpose of promoting schooling in this stage; legal guardians with paid work or professional activity; the academic record of the students for admission to Baccalaureate; annual per capita income of the family unit and disability or developmental disorder. The same assumptions and scores for belonging to a large family, single-parent family or family with two sons or daughters also continue.
In cases of priority in admission, the representative or legal representatives of the student who has their usual job in the center where they request admission follow; to basic performance athletes so that they can study in a center close to the place where they train and develop their sports career for being a relative up to the second degree of consanguinity of a person who is a victim of terrorism and also of children in foster care.
Procedure
The schooling procedure begins with the publication by educational centers of the list of vacant school positions, as well as information on the cadastral addresses included in their areas of influence and borders. When the offer of places coincides with or is higher than the demand, applicants will be admitted and in those cases in which not all requests can be met, they will be scaled.
Each educational center will make public on its notice board, until April 22, the list of applicants with the assigned score and, from that date, a period of 10 teaching days will be opened for the presentation of allegations. If after the application of the grading criteria (siblings in the center, family or work home, annual income, disability, large or single-parent family or with two children, legal guardians with paid work activity, enrollment in the first cycle of Early Childhood Education and Baccalaureate academic record) there are ties, the result of the public draw that will be held on May 14 will be applied once the application admission process is closed. The final list of admitted and non-admitted students will be released on May 15.
Through the Schooling Portal, on the website of the Ministry of Educational Development and Vocational Training, families will have access to information about educational centers, teachings and the offer of complementary services, as well as the regulatory regulations and the form of application, which can be submitted electronically or in the schools and institutes themselves. In addition, the iEscolariza APP application allows you to consult centers and scale points by address. Through this device, families will receive free notifications of both the procedure and their request.
Likewise, the Ministry has set up a free information telephone number (900 848 000), uninterrupted from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.